spix (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

spix – Compile a .tex file, executing commands that are set inside the file itself.

SYNOPSIS

spix [–version] [-h] [-n] file

DESCRIPTION

spix parses a .tex file to find lines starting with %$ (before the preambule). Those lines are shell commands that are executed by spix.

Commands are executed as-is, excepted that:

– command are run from the directory of the file given in argument;

– shell variables $texname and $basename are set to the name of the tex file (respectively with and without the .tex extension).

OPTIONS

-n, –dry-run

Print the commands that would be executed, but do not execute them.

-h, –help

Print help, and exit.

–version

Print version, and exit.

EXAMPLES

Let foo.tex be the following file.

% Compile this file twice with lualatex.% $ lualatex foo.tex % $ lualatex foo.tex
\documentclass
{
    article
}
egin{document} Hello, world !
nd
{
    document
}

When running spix on this file, it is compiled twice using lualatex(1) (as written in lines 2 and 3 of the file).

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